KOCM
Daystar TV station in Norman, Oklahoma
KOCM (channel 46) is a religious television station licensed to Norman, Oklahoma, United States, serving the Oklahoma City area. The station is owned by the Daystar Television Network. KOCM's offices and master control facilities are located on 72nd Avenue Northeast in Norman, and its transmitter is located near the John Kilpatrick Turnpike/I-44 in northeast Oklahoma City.
The station first signed on the air in 2003, and was built and signed on by Daystar through Word of God Fellowship.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Analog-to-digital conversion
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital conversion period for full-service television stations, KOCM was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). KOCM discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 46, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation UHF channel 46.
The public source identifies “KOCM” as daystar TV station in Norman, Oklahoma. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KOCM, Daystar and station.
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This entry incorporates text from “KOCM” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.